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Nantucket Light Jet Charter

Light jets are the working category on most Nantucket trips, and they cover more of what leaves the island in a given week than anything else we arrange.

Light Jets We Arrange from Nantucket

Every aircraft in this category has its own page with cabin, range, seating and a charter pricing reference. 16 are listed below.

When Light Jets Fit the Nantucket Trip

The Northeast corridor, the runs down to Charleston and Florida, and the hop across to Chicago all fit a light jet as a single comfortable leg. The operator will confirm the routing for your date and your load.

The runway required on the day is a performance calculation the operator makes for that aircraft, at that weight, in the conditions on your date, so we confirm it with them for your specific trip rather than working from a general figure.

Vetting Behind Every Trip

Every operator, aircraft, and crew goes through our internal due diligence before we present any options. Our internal standards meet or exceed what the FAA requires:

  • FAR Part 135 charter operators for traditional private aircraft, or FAR Part 121 for airliner-size and group trips (or the foreign equivalent on international legs)
  • Operator subscription to Wyvern and ARGUS reviewed where the operator participates.
  • Pilot experience and operator incident history reviewed before we recommend an aircraft.
  • Fewer than 60 brokers worldwide hold Premium Wyvern Broker Member status, and Air Charter Advisors is one of them.

Nantucket Patterns We Plan Around

Nantucket Memorial Airport is the island’s only airport, three miles from town, so the choice most clients are really making is the aircraft and the timing rather than the field. The main runway is 6,303 feet, with a 538-foot displaced threshold on runway 6 that leaves 5,765 feet of landing distance on that end. There is an ILS approach to both ends, which matters on an island where fog is the most common reason a departure moves.

Aircraft with more than nine passenger seats need two hours’ prior permission, which covers most midsize and larger charter jets. Your advisor makes that call. Martha’s Vineyard requires prior permission twenty-four hours in advance, so on a short-notice booking Nantucket is the island that can take you.

The tower keeps seasonal hours: six in the morning until ten at night from May 15th to September 30th, and six until nine at night through the winter. July and August are the island’s peak, and on a busy weekend it is ramp and parking space rather than aircraft availability that runs out first. There is no customs on the island, so an international trip clears on the mainland at Cape Cod Gateway Airport in Hyannis.

Contact

Call 1-888-987-5387 or request a quote and we will come back with aircraft that fit the trip. The phone is answered at any hour, on any day of the year. For how we review the operator behind every flight, see our safety page, and for the full fleet see our aircraft guide.